Alice's Trip to Switzerland (translated from Lukas Bärfuss) by
The play’s subtitle is “Scenes from the life of assisted dying advocate Gustav Strom.” Alice, from Germany, and John, from England, travel to Switzerland in order legally to commit suicide, with the help of Doctor Strom, and Eve, a young woman eager to assist him. One enthusiastic review in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung called the play “a clinically objective social drama that manages in two dozen short...
The play’s subtitle is “Scenes from the life of assisted dying advocate Gustav Strom.” Alice, from Germany, and John, from England, travel to Switzerland in order legally to commit suicide, with the help of Doctor Strom, and Eve, a young woman eager to assist him. One enthusiastic review in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung called the play “a clinically objective social drama that manages in two dozen short scenes to discuss the ethical, emotional, political and religious aspects of assisted suicide while leaving the verdict up to the spectator.”